Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Recently from which place Archaeological experts from Banaras Hindu University and Cambridge University London have dug out relics believed to be associated with the Harappan civilization? - At Khalsa Bahla village in Karnal.( Team has found relics including utensils, pottery and bones)Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.inWhere did US and Indian naval forces armed with guided missile cruiser, destroyers and submarine started a 10 day long annual Malabar exercise on 7th April,2012 to advance their maritime ties and mutual security issues? - Bay of BengalCurrent Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.inWho will be the sports ambassador of Haryana? - Leander Paes (Ace lawn tennis player and a Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardee.)Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.inEarthquake of 8.6 magnitude at which place shaked even India on 11th April, 2012? - IndonesiaCurrent Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.inWhere is India's first Integrated Check Post situated? - At Attari ( Inaugurated by Home Minister P Chidambaram)What is the name of India's most sophisticated and powerful ballistic missile ever built? - Agni V ( with a range of 5000 Km , Agni V will traverse 2000 Km more than any other Indian Missile. Successfully launched on 19th April,2012.)Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.inWhere is Asia's first dolphin research center going to be set up? - In Bihar ( Patna)Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.inAssam Governor JB Patnaik has taken fresh initiative to bid which status for Majuli river island in Assam so that the world's largest inhabited river island's unique cultural identity can be well preserved for the progeny? - UNESCO World Heritage statusCurrent Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.inWhy J&K government has banned the export of garlic, cardamom, coconut, zeera, banana and chilli to the Pakistan occupied Kashmir from Jammu and Kashmir? - Since directions are received not to export items that are not produced in J&K.Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.in*************Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.in

The body of a kidnapped British aid worker was found dead in Balochistan’s capitalQuettaon April 29 nearly four months after his abduction from the area in January. Khalil Rasjed Dale was working on a health programme of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) inQuettawhen he was kidnapped on January 5 while returning home from work.Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.in

President Pratibha Patil plans to write her autobiography after she retires in July.India’s first woman president will be completing 50 years in public life this year and is contemplating to tell her story in a book.Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.in

Music connoisseur, late S.V. Narayana Swamy Rao initiated Sree Ramaseva Mandali activities at Chamarajpet in city in 1938, and the Mandali has since been organising music festival with top rung artistes gracing the sabha for more than seven decades. This year during the Mandali’s 74th National Music Festival for Rama Navami, steered by sons Varadaraj and Ramprasad, the ‘Founders Day’ was celebrated with lifetime achievement awards given away to a Carnatic musician and a Hindustani vocalist.Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.in

‘Asian Lite’, a Manchester-based fortnightly focussing on British Asian events and issues, has won the top prize in the newspaper category in the How-Do Awards that celebrate the best in the media industry in the north of England.The fortnightly, edited by Kerala-origin Anasudhin Azeez, was adjudged the best from a short list of eight journals.

China has launched a tourist train connecting the country’s northeastern Tumen county and the picturesque Chilbo mountain in neighbouringNorth Korea.Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.in

Under a mutual agreement reached on April 20 between the two countries,Switzerlandhas agreed to provide details of secret bank accounts of individuals sought byIndiaeven on the basis of limited information. The agreement was signed under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) between the two countries.

Per capita availability of water in the country has declined to one-third in the past 65 years, Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal informed the Rajya Sabha on April 30.Enough water was still available if the scarce natural resource was used judiciously.Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.in

Arunachal Pradesh on April 30 remembered former Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu who was killed in a tragic helicopter crash at Tawang last year. The people of Tawang paid rich tribute to Khandu by marching 7km from Tawang Monastery to his cremation ground at Famla. About nine thousand people gathered at Tawang monastery this morning and participated in the march.Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.in

Eminent journalist T N Ninan of Business Standard has been elected for a second term as president of the Editors Guild. Vijay Naik, Consulting Editor of Sakal, was unanimously elected as the general secretary of the Guild while Suresh Bafna of Nai Duniya will continue as treasurer.

Meera elected Mayor of New Delhi Municipal Corporation New Delhi, Apr 30 (PTI) Three-time BJP councillor Meera Aggarwal was today elected unopposed as the Mayor of the newly created North Delhi Municipal Corporation while her party colleague Azad Singh became the Deputy Mayor.Current Affairs April 2012 | General Knowledge april 2012 | Latest GK | www.azindia.co.in

Al-Qaeda has named computer literate Farman Ali Shinwari, a resident of the restive Khyber tribal region and whose brothers have been associated with terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, as its new chief in Pakistan.